A role is open. The message is unclear.
Responsibilities, requirements and language expectations are hard for candidates to interpret.
For employers in the Netherlands
Make working with international talent easier.
Practical support for employers, from clearer opportunities to smoother onboarding and better day-to-day teamwork.
Working with international students? Explore support for universities.
For businesses
Where employers need practical answers.
The hire is made. The team needs support.
New colleagues are left to work out routines and unwritten expectations.
Good people. Different expectations.
Communication and responsibilities are not clear enough for day-to-day work.
Activation Workshop
Start with one business challenge.
A 60–90 minute working session to pinpoint the issue, align your team and agree one concrete next step.
What your team takes away
A clear priority. An action to test.
- Duration
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Approach
- 4 activation dimensions
- Outcome
- One practical next step
Beyond advice
Hands-on help with the next step.
01
Understand the challenge.
Start with one situation that is not working.
02
Choose a practical action.
Agree what needs to change and how to review progress.
03
Work alongside the team.
Put the agreed improvement into practice together.
Our method
Four factors. One practical priority.
Stability
Can people focus, or are practical pressures getting in the way?
Translation
Are skills, experience and expectations understood?
Navigation
Are the routes, requirements and responsibilities clear?
Visibility
Can the right people see opportunities and contributions?
For universities & universities of applied sciences
Support your international students and the teams around them.
Workshops designed with your institution, around your students and the support you already provide.
Workshops for your students
Interactive workshops shaped around your students and programme. Topics can include life as a newcomer, the move from study to work, intercultural communication skills, or using the Activation Framework to choose a practical next step.
Activation Framework for your team
Apply the Activation Framework to real student experiences. Map the barriers, review how your support responds, and agree practical improvements to test. Connect the steps students can take with the changes your institution can make.
Complementing your existing student support, not replacing it.
Explore support for universitiesConnected initiatives
Practical information. Real perspectives.
HowToIn.nl and Bennu are two complementary initiatives from Flux Forward.
HowToIn.nlPractical information
Practical information for internationals.
Free source-linked guides, organisations, recognised sponsors, jobs and events that employers can share with international colleagues.
Bennu CommunityPodcast and interviews
Conversations about work and change.
Interviews about entrepreneurship, leadership, identity and belonging, with real perspectives from different lives.
Connected across the Netherlands
Working with organisations supporting international talent, founders and professionals.
For employers and business leaders
What needs to work better?
Tell us where things get stuck in your business.